School of Design
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Faculty .Graduate Group . Emeriti
Faculty 2003-2004
Graduate Group
Emeriti
Faculty in ArchitectureTony Atkin
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture
B.A.,University of Utah; M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania. Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Teaches graduate studios and seminars. Visiting critic at Columbia, Tulane, Yale, Princeton, Maryland and other universities. Twice recipient of Progressive Architecture Citation for Design. Principal, Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell and Associates, Philadelphia. Finalist for Brooklyn Museum Master Plan Competition. Projects include: Addition to the RISD Museum, Fine and Performing Arts Center for Deerfield Academy; The Renfrew Center; Chapel for the Cathedral of Christ the King, Ontario; and numerous residential buildings.*
atkgsfa@pobox.upenn.eduHenry Bardsley Lecturer Civil Engineering at Imperial College in London; Associate of the City and Guilds Institutes, Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers in London, Member of the Order of Architects and Engineers of Luxembourg, holder of the Bronze Medal of the Association Francais de Genie Civil. Currently a member of the RFR practice.He has worked on variety of projects; Center Pompidou in Paris, Kocommas government buildings in Riyadh, housing in Italy, road vehicle research in Torino, Terminal 2F in Roissy, La Villette, the Science City, the Bamboo Garden and the Park, the Inverted Pyramid in Paris, the full size representation of the Louvre Grande Pyramide, tensioned cable facades in London, Paris, Budapest and Dublin, the galleries of the Contemporary Arts Centre on the Kirchberg, Courtyard roof of Neumunster Abbey in Luxembourg, and the El Pardo Palace in Madrid, longspan aircraft maintenance facilities, footbridges in Orleans, La Defence, Barcelona passenger air terminal for the second runway, and he is co-author of the footbridge crossing the Seine on the National Library axis. The practice is currently working in Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, USA, China, Ireland, Quatar. henry.bardsley@rfr.fr http://www.rfr.fr http://www.rfr-stuttgart.deWilliam W. Braham
Associate Professor of Architecture
Associate Chair for Student Affairs
B.S.E., Princeton University; M. Arch, Ph.D. Arch. University of Pennsylvania. Member, American Institute of Architects, International Association of Lighting Designers, and principal of Studio Luxe, a design and consulting practice. Teaches graduate courses on light and environmental technology, and coordinates the second year design studios. Recent publications include articles in Assemblage, Architectural Research Quarterly, Journal of Architectural Education, Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture, and Body and Building. His book, Modern Color/Modern Architecture:A genealogy of color in modern architecture was published in the Spring of 2002. His next book is called Condition: a bio-technological account of contemporary architecture, an examiniation of environmental technology in architecture
brahamw@pobox.upenn.edu
http://pobox.upenn.edu/~brahamwAlberto Cavallero
Lecturer
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.Arch, University of Pennsylvania. Work exhibited at the FAARM gallery. Research on reconstruction of a site in Pompeii, Italy. Currently in practice with Kling. acavallero@tklp.comPatricia Conway
Professor of Architecture
B.A., M.A. English Literature, New York University; M.S. Urban Planning, Columbia University; Loeb Fellow, Harvard GSD. Dean, GSFA, 1991-94. Founding partner (1976-84) of Kohn Pedersen Fox and President (1984-91) of Kohn Pedersen Fox Conway Associates, Inc. Teaches courses in urban design, professional practice and real estate development. Member of the boards of the National Parks Mid-Atlantic Council; International Design Conference at Aspen; The Parks Council, New York City; St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Brooklyn; panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts; and peer reviewer for GSA/NEA Design Excellence program. Books include Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design (1982), Art for Everyday: The New Craft Movement (1990), and The Sex of Architecture (1996). Visiting Scholar, the American Academy in Rome, Fall 1997.* pconway@pobox.upenn.eduDavid G. De Long
Professor of Architecture
B.Arch., University of Kansas; M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. in Architectural History, Columbia University. Visiting Critic in Architectural Design, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Visiting Professor, University of Sydney; restoration architect, Harvard-Cornell Archaeological Expedition to Sardis; former Associate, John Carl Warnecke and Associates, New York City; former Chair, Program in Historic Preservation, Columbia University. Fulbright Fellow, 1967-68; first James Marston Fitch Resident in Historic Preservation, American Academy in Rome, 1997; Guggenheim Fellow, 1997-98. Teaches History/Theory I, American architectural history, and theories of historic preservation. Chair, Graduate Group in Historic Preservation, 1984-96. Books include Historic American Buildings (14 vols., 1977-80), Bruce Goff: Toward Absolute Architecture (1988), Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture (1991), Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape (1996), Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City (1998), Out of the Ordinary: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates (2001). Former and current affiliations include Editorial Board of the Architectural History Foundation. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Advisory Committee, and Board of Directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. ddelong@pobox.upenn.eduWinka Dubbeldam
Practice Associate Professor of Architecture
M.Arch., Instituteof Higher Professional Architectural Education, Rotterdam[1990]; M.Arch.AAD at Columbia University, NYC [1992] . Associate Professor of Practice at University of Pennsylvania. Prevously taught at Columbia university NY & Harvard, Cambridge. Principle of Archi-Tectonics, New York [1994]. Juror and lecturer at several national and international Architecture Schools. Recipient of numerous grants and awards. Monograph: Winka Dubbeldam Architect, (1996). Archi-tectonics has built several residential and commercial spaces in Manhattan. Recent projects are: a private residence & guesthouse in Upstate New York, and a new11-story mixed-use building in Soho, NY, a residence in Vera Cruz, Mexico,three residential towers in Rotterdam.
winka@archi-tectonics.com
http://www.archi-tectonics.comLindsay Falck
Lecturer
B.Arch, M.Urban & Regional Planning, University of Capetown. Teaches studios and construction. Formerly, Professor at UCT, where he served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Dean of Faculty. Visiting critic and external examiner to all major schools of architecture in South Africa and visiting critic at several schools in Great Britain and the USA. Recipient Distinguished Teacher Award, Ford Foundation Travel Grant, Helen Gardner Travel Award. Research focus in area of urban conditions. Extensive experience as architect and urban planner in South Africa. Continues in private practice in Architecture and is a consultant in construction technology. Current Research is in the field of archaeological conservation and structural mechanics at Catalhoyuk, Turkey and in high performance, climate-adjustable building enclosure systems and ultra-lightweight structures.*
falckda@pobox.upenn.eduHoma Farjadi
Practice Professor of Architecture
AA Graduate Diploma, AA School of Architecture, London; Masters in Architecture with distinction, Tehran University.
Has held Visiting Professorships at Columbia, Edinburgh and Yale Universities; Associate Professor of Architecture, GSD, Harvard University, 89-97; Architectural Association, Unit Master 1980-87. Has been in practice in the US and UK since 1987 as Farjadi- Mostafavi practicing in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in partnership with Sima Farjadi in the Farjadi Farjadi architects in London since 1997.
homaf@farjadi.comRichard Farley, AIA, PE
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture
B.C.E., Manhattan College; M.Arch (The Studio of Louis I. Kahn), M.S.E., University of Pennsylvania. A registered architect and a professional engineer, Mr. Farely teaches graduate-level classes in architectural structures, emphasizing its role in architecture. He is a principal and director of projects with The Kling Lindquist Partnership located in Center City Philadelphia. Some of the projects he has been responsible for include: The Bell Atlantic Properties Office Tower, Philadelphia, PA; The Dow Jones Office Complex, New Brunswick, NJ; SAP America Inc.'s Headquarters, Newtown Square, PA; and J.P. Morgan Services, Inc.'s Operational Center, Stanton, DE. The recipient of the university's Perkins Award for Excellence in Teaching, Mr. Farley is a fellowship recipient in AIA's Research Program in which he is also an active member.*
rfarley@pobox.upenn.eduAnnette Fierro
Associate Professor of Architecture
B.S.C.E., M.Arch, Rice University. Teaches design studios and seminars in technology-within the modern movement and within international contemporary architecture. Current research addresses the use of glass in the French Grands Project; her recently released book is entitled The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle, Paris 2000 (MIT Press). Other recent articles include "Popular Construction: Handbooks for Homefronts." Formerly in practice with Smith-Miller and Hawkinson Architects, New York; design work as project architect has appeared in various architectural journals, including Assemblage, Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, and Lotus. *
fierroal@pobox.upenn.eduGary Hack
Dean
Paley Professor
B.Arch., University of Manitoba; M.Arch. and MUP, University of Illinois, Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, MIT. A.M. (hon), University of Pennsylvania. Co-Author, Site Planning, Third Edition, and Lessons from Local Experiences. Consultant, recent projects include: Hudson River Park Plan, New York; Redevelopment Plan, Prudential Center, Boston, and Metropolitan Plan for Bangkok. Has taught at many universities in the U.S., Canada, China, Hong Kong, and other countries. Formerly, Head and Professor of Urban Design, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. *
gahack@pobox.upenn.eduSamuel Y. Harris
Adjunct Professor of Architecture
B.A., cum laude Amherst College; M.Arch. and M.S. Eng., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., University of Maryland. Proprietor, S.Harris & Co.; former partner at Kieran, Timberlake & Harris; former associate at Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown; former project engineer at Keast & Hood Co. Teaches Professional Practice, Building Pathology, Building Intervention and Diagnostics in the Architecture Department and in the Program in Historic Preservation. Recipient of the G. Holmes Perkins Award for distinguished teaching, 2000. An Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale, 1994. Adjunct Associate Professor at Goucher College. On faculty of Executive Education of the Harvard School of Design. Author of Building Pathology; Deterioration, Diagnostics, and Intervention, 2000. Current member of the Boards of Directors of the Center for the Conservation of Art and Historic Artifacts; of Cliveden, a National Trust Property; and of the Friends of Lemon Hill. Advisor to The Philadelphia Preservation Alliance and to The Highlands. Member of the Carpenters' Company.
sharris@pobox.upenn.eduAndrew Jones
Lecturer
B.Arch., University of Toronto; MA (furniture), Royal College of Art, London. Teaches graduate furniture design elective at the University of Toronto since 1997. Visiting lecturer at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) and Napier University, Scotland. Runs a studio in Toronto designing furniture for manufacture, commissioned furniture/lighting designs and architecture projects. Manufactured products for: Keilhauer, Teknion, Umbra & Gloster. International group exhibitions including: MOMA, NYC; The Venice Biennale; Sotheby’s, London; Salone del Mobile, Milan; ICFF, NYC; Totem Gallery, NYC; The Design Exchange, Toronto. Foreign Design consultant: Guyana Furniture Training Project, 2002. Awards include: 3, I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review Awards.
andjones@interlog.com
Timothy Kearney
Lecturer
B.S.Arch., Catholic University of America; M. Arch. University of Pennsylvania. Teaches technology course focusing on computers in professional practice. Associate with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Recently completed work includes the Camden Children's Garden and Penguin Exhibit at the NJ State Aquarium, the Frank G. Wells Building at the Walt Disney Studios, the Trenton Central Fire Headquarters in Trenton, NJ., the Celebration Bank in Celebration, Florida and the Reedy Creek Emergency Services Headquarters in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.*
Stephen Kieran
Adjunct Professor of Architecture
B.A., Yale University; M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania. Rome Prize Fellowship. College of Fellows, American Institute of Architects. Partner in KieranTimberlake Associates LLP. Winner of over twenty AIA awards for design excellence, including two Gold Awards. Graham Foundation Grant Recipient. With James Timberlake, he is the first recipient of the AIA Latrobe Fellowship for design research. Firm work widely published in Architectural Record, Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Interiors, Interior Design, AD, Arch+, and other international journals. Author with James Timberlake of MANUAL, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake Associates LLP. Author of Berkeley, The Building of a College, Yale University, Editor of Via III, articles in Harvard Architecture Review and Perspecta. Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale in 1994, lecturer at Princeton, 1982-89. Teaches third year M.Arch Research Studio.*
kieran@kierantimberlake.com
http://www.kierantimberlake.comBranko Kolarevic
Associate Professor of Architecture
Dipl.Ing.Arh., Belgrade University; MDesS, DrDes, Harvard University. Taught design and digital media courses in universities throughout North America (Boston, Los Angeles, Miami) and Asia (Hong Kong). Lectured worldwide on digital media in design. Published several books, including "Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing" (Spon Press, London) and "Architectural Modeling and Rendering" (John Wiley & Sons, New York). Architecture Reviews Editor for the journal "Automation in Construction", published by Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam. Past President of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). Founder of the Digital Design Research Lab (DDRL) at Penn.
branko@pobox.upenn.edu
http://www.gsfa.upenn.edu/ddrl/
Daniel Libeskind
Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture
B.Arch., Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City; M.A. in History and Theory of Architecture, University of Essex. Taught and lectured in numerous universities throughout North America including Harvard and UCLA, and in Europe, Japan, Australia, and South America. Founder and Director of the private not-for-profit institute for architecture, Architecture Intermundium in Milan, Italy. Has practiced architecture and exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. He is the recipient of many awards including TIME magazine, The Best of 1998 Design Awards for the Felix Nussbaum Museum Osnabruck.
David Leatherbarrow
Professor of Architecture
Chair, Graduate Group in Architecture
B.Arch., University of Kentucky; Ph.D. in Art, University of Essex. Teaches Architectural Theory and Design, supervises research, and teaches in the Ph.D. program. Taught theory and design at the Polytechnic of Central London and at Cambridge and other British and American universities. In private practice with Lauren Leatherbarrow. Recipient of the Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Canadian Center of Architecture (1997-98). Books include Uncommon Ground, Roots of Architectural Invention, On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time, and Masterpieces of Architectural Drawing. Research on history and theory of architecture and the city.
E-mail:leatherb@pobox.upenn.eduAli M. Malkawi
Associate Professor of Architecture
B.S., Jordan University of Science and Technology; MArch, University of Colorado; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. Teaches architectural technology and computation. Conducts research in the areas of computational simulation, building performance evaluation and knowledge-based systems. Supervises research and teaches in the Ph.D. program. Founder and former coordinator of the Augmented Reality Group at The University of Michigan. Taught and conducted research at Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Michigan and Harvard. Lectured at numerous universities and conferences. Published in many proceedings and journals.
E-mail:malkawi@pobox.upenn.edu
URL: http://pobox.upenn.edu/~malkawi/
Muscoe Martin
Lecturer
B.A. Princeton University; M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania. Senior Associate with Wallace, Roberts and Todd, LLC in Philadelphia. Former chairman of the AIA Committee on the Environment, current member of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Faculty and frequent speaker at national conferences on High Performance, Green Design. Teaches graduate course on Sustainable Design.
E-Mail:muscoe@pobox.upenn.edu
URL: http://www.wrtdesign.com/Kinya Maruyama
B.S. Arch and M.S. Waseda University. Professor, Arts and Architecture School, Waseda University. Founding partner, Team Zoo, Tokyo, where he heads the Atelier Mobile office. Responsible for a wide range of projects, particularly nursery schools. The Tokiwa Nursery School and numerous other of his projects have been published in Japan Architect and Architecture D'aujourd'hui. Team Zoo's competition-winning design for City Hall, Nago Okinawa, won the Japan Architects' Institute prize.*Frank G. Matero
Associate Professor of Architecture
Chair, Graduate Group in Historic Preservation
Director, The Architectural Conservation Laboratory
B.A., SUNY Stoneybrook; M.S., Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; Conservation Program, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Visiting Professor, International Center for the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (UNESCO), Rome (1988-present). Previously Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director, Center for Preservation Research, Columbia University (1981-90). Teaching and research in building conservation and appropriate technology. Publications include contributions towards reflexive method in archaeology: the example at Catalhoyuk (2000), Architectural Ceramics (1996), Ancient and Historic Metals (1995), and Conserving Buildings (1994), as well as articles in professional journals and conference proceedings. Recipient of the Oliver Torrey Fuller Award for Best Publication (1993). Editor, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites and Journal of Architectural Conservation. On Board of Directors of US/ICOMOS, Heritage Preservation, and Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. Research Associate, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania
E-Mail:fgmatero@pobox.upenn.eduDetlef Mertins
Professor of Architecture
Chair, Department of Architecture
B. Arch., University of Toronto; Ph.D. in Architecture, Princeton University.
Teaches architectural history, theory and design, supervises research, and teaches in the Ph.D. program. Taught at the University of Toronto (1991-2003) and as a visiting professor at Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University and Rice University. Held the Canada Research Chair in Architecture (2001-2003), the Konrad Adenauer Research Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Royal Canadian Society (2003), and a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1998). Books include the English edition of Walter Curt Behrendt, The Victory of the New Building Style, The Presence of Mies, and Metropolitan Mutations: The Architecture of Emerging Public Spaces. Numerous essays in scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as critical writings on contemporary architecture. Research focuses on the history and theory of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism. E-Mail:mertins@design.upenn.edu
Peter McCleary
Professor of Architecture
B.S., Glasgow; ARCST, Strathclyde; DIC, Imperial College, London. Former Chair of Architecture, Historic Preservation and Ph.D. in Architecture Programs. Visiting professor to many universities in the USA, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Research grants from NEA, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and French Ministry of Culture. Fellowships from NEA, Fulbright, and Graham Foundation. Founder of ACSA Annual Technology Conference and awarded ACSA Distinguished Professor Medal. Professional practice in London with Freeman and Fox; Ove Arup; Arup Associates; and Frank Newby. Architectural and Engineering consultant in private practice since 1965. Research and interpretive articles on the technologies of architecture and engineering published in numerous journals and books.
E-mail: mccleary@pobox.upenn.eduJohn Milner
Adjunct Professor of Architecture
B.Arch., University of Pennsylvania. Firm, John Milner Architects Inc., specializes in the conservation, restoration, and adaptation of historic structures and the design of new buildings which are often in an historic context. Restoration projects include Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago), William Scarbrough House (Savannah), Fonthill (Doylestown, PA ), Market Street Houses of Franklin Court (Philadelphia), Jethro Coffin House (Nantucket), and Thomas Stone National Historic Site (Charles Co., MD). New construction includes Cherry Hill Farm (Charlottesville), Marlborough Farm (Chester Co., PA), Piney Point (Eastern Shore, MD), and numerous private residences and institutional facilities. Teaches courses in American Building Technology and Documentation and Site Analysis.Larry Mitnick
Lecturer
B.Arch, The Cooper Union; M.Arch, Harvard University. Teaches design studio. Formerly chairman of the Department of Architectural Studies at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia College of Art and Design. Visiting critic at Harvard University, Lehigh University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Internationale Somerakademie Fur Bildende Kunst Salzburg, Austria, Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has exhibited architectural projects, paintings, graphic work as well as published his poetry. His work has appeared in Progressive Architecture and Boulevard, a literary journal. Publications include: articles sponsored by the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; student work featured in a publication sponsored by the EPFL of Lausanne Switzerland; article in Journal of Architectural Historians; co-authored a project funded by NEA grant "John Hejduk: Riga Project" and article in accompanying publication. Continues in private practice.
E-mail: mitnickpr@aol.comRoger Moss
Adjunct Professor of Architecture
B.S.Ed. and M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., University of Delaware. Executive Director, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Private consulting practice as Partner, LCA Associates, limited to the restoration and management of museums and historic sites. Teaches courses on documentation of historic structures, management of historic sites and museums, and mechanical systems of historic structures. Board of Directors, Christopher Ludwick Foundation, Abraham Lincoln Foundation, British Cathedrals and Historic Churches Foundation. Research, publication, and exhibition grants from IMLS, NEA, HEH, NHPRC. Books include Historic Houses of Philadelphia (1998); Philadelphia Victorian (1998); Paint in America (1994); The American Country House (1990); Lighting for Historic Buildings (1988); Victorian Exterior Decoration (1978); Biographical Dictionary of Philadelphia Architects (1985); and Century of Color (1981).*
E-mail:rwmoss@pobox.upenn.edu
Lisa Neely
Lecturer
B.S. Architecture, University of the Arts; M.Arch, Princeton University. Teaches visual studies. Partner, Veyko: an intradisciplinary firm featuring architecture, furniture and metal fabrication. Work work appears in Architectural Record, Dwell, Interior Design Magazine and on MTV's The Real World. . Recent article appears in the Fisuras, Madrid.
E-mail:lneely@veyko.com
Enrique Norten
Ella Warren Shafer Miller Practice Professor in Architecture
B.Arch, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City; M.Arch, Cornell University. Principal of TEN Arquitectos. Visiting professor and design critic to several major American universities including Columbia, Cornell, Rice, SCI-Arc, and Harvard. He is widely published and has received numerous national and international architectural awards for projects including: the National Theater School of Mexico, facilities for Mexican television, and Mexico's Natural History Museum. AIA Honorary Fellowship (1999), Mies van der Rohe Award for Latin America (1998). Founding Member and Member of the Editorial Board for Arquitectura.*
E-mail: enorten@pobox.upenn.eduAndrew Phillips
Lecturer
B.Arch., Pennsylvania State University; B.S. in Architecture, Pennsylvania State University; M.Arch., Harvard University. Teaches graduate core Design studios, Elective Studios, Thesis, and Visual Studies Workshops. Visiting critic and professor of architecture to numerous schools of architecture. Work exhibited at the Van Alen Institute, the Milan Polytechnic, and Harvard University. Published in the Philadelphia Architect and Studio Works. Principal of Dommert-Phillips, Philadelphia. Recent work includes the Kakum National Rainforest Visitors Center, Ghana; Palm House renovations, Fruit House renovations, East Conseratory additions at Longwood Gardens; and new loft offices for the digital/post production firm of Ballentyne Brumble Communications, Philadelphia.*
E-mail: andrew@dommertphillips.comVincenzo Polsinelli
Lecturer
B.Arch., University of Kentucky. Teaches technology and building construction. Assistant Professor of Architecture, NYIT. Visiting critic at Cornell, Catholic University, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Kentucky, and University of Florence, Italy. Selected articles appear in the journals Contract Design, Architecture, Architectural Record, and Parametro. Principal of V. Polsinelli, Architect, New York, NY.*
E-mail: VinPols@cs.comAli Rahim
Assistant Professor of Architecture
B.S. Arch., University of Michigan, M.Arch., Columbia University. Ali Rahim is Assistant Professor and principal of Contemporary Architecture Practice, a research focussed design practice. Books include "Contemporary Techniques in Architecture," Academy Editions/ Wiley and Sons, February 2002 and "Contemporary Processes in Architecture," Academy Editions/ Wiley and Sons, August 2000. Awards include the winning competition entries for a Shopping Mall and Steel Museum, as well as a one acre Naval Memorial. In addition, he is the recipient of the Honor Award for Excellence in Design from Columbia University, where he received his Master of Architecture degree. His projects and articles have been published in several journals and are forthcoming in books and journals published by Actar Press in Barcelona, Spon Press in London, and Columbia University and Lusitania Presses in New York. He has also lectured in the US and Europe extensively on his work. His teaching and research focuses on Design, Theory and Digital Media.E-mail: alir@pobox.upenn.edu
URL: http://www.gsfa.upenn.edu/aliWitold Rybczynski
Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism
Professor of Real Estate
Director of the Urban Design Program
Coordinator, Certificate in Real Estate Design & Development
B.Arch., M.Arch., McGill; M.A. (hon), University of Pennsylvania. Honorary fellow, American Institute of Architects. Teaches classes in theory. Research interests: urbanism, housing, architectureal criticism. Previously professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal. Author of many acclaimed books including Home(1986), translated into eight languages; City Life (1995); A Clearing in the Distance (1999), a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted and winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize; The Look of Architecture (2000), and The Perfect House, on the villas of Palladio. Currently writing a book on urban design and real estate. He contributes regularly to the New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. He is also Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School, and is founding co-editor of the Wharton Real Estate Review
rybczyns@pobox.upenn.eduSusan Nigra Snyder
Lecturer
A.B. Mount Holyoke College; M.Arch, University of Pennsylvania. Teaches graduate studios and elective seminars. Private practice: Company for the Civic Arts. Chair, Advisory Board of Design; Member, Fine Arts Committee, both for the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia. Fine Arts Elective studio, in collaboration with artist Susana Jacobson, focuses on making and meaning in public art. Elective seminar investigates contemporary forces of material culture and consumer society on urban form. Recipient of grant from Penn Research Foundation; recent work with Alex Wall published in A.D. Quaderns and Modulus. Research on consumption, urban form and the civic realm.
E-mail:snsnyder@pobox.upenn.edu
Roger Smith
Lecturer
E-mail:rssquinn@aol.comHarris M. Steinberg
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M. Arch, University of Pennsylvania. AIA, NCARB. Executive Director of Penn Praxis, the clinical consulting arm of the School of Design and teaches professional practice to the second year graduate students in architecture. Prior to directing Praxis, he was in private practice for 15-years as a founding principal of Steinberg and Stevens Architects in Philadelphia - a firm that received local, state and national design awards. As an alumnus of the AIA Leadership Institute in Washington, DC, he lectures nationally and internationally on the need for architects to become engaged in the life of their communities. He is the recipient of AIA Philadelphia's Young Architect Award and has been recognized by Philadelphia Business Journal's as one one of "40 Under 40" civic leaders of note. In 2001, he was appointed to a seat on the Philadelphia Historical Commission by the Honorable John F. Street, Mayor of Philadelphia.
harrisst@pobox.upenn.edu
/pennpraxis/index.htmJames Timberlake
Adjunct Professor of Architecture
B.ES., University of Detroit, M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania. Teaches a Master's Research Studio in collaboration with Stephen Kieran. Fellow of the American Academy in Rome 1982-83. Former Associate of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. Founding partner of KieranTimberlake Associates (formerly Kieran, Timberlake, and Harris). Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Firm is recipient of 19 design awards including two Gold Medals and one distinguished building award. Winner of numerous competitions. Published and lectures internationally. Interested in a philosophy of design which is based on the articulation, exploration, and integration of principles critical and internal to the act of building and city making.*
E-mail:timberlake@kierantimberlake.com
URL: http://www.kierantimberlake.comPeter Vieira
Lecturer
B.Arch., University of Notre Dame; M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania. Teaches in visual studies workshops. Co-winner of a design competition for David's Island, New Rochelle, Connecticut in 1997. Work exhibited at Van Alen Institute, New York; published in Competitions. Associate with KieranTimberlake Associates LLP, Philadelphia. Built projects include the Sterling Law School Dining Hall Addition, Yale University; current projects include the Cornell University West Campus Residential Initiative.*
E-mail: pvieira@kierantimberlake.com
Cathrine Veikos
Assistant Professor of Architecture
B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University, M.Arch, Harvard University. Registered architect. Teaches design studio, coordinates Visual Studies in Digital Media and supervises graduate thesis research. Seminars and research address the impact of media-based techniques on representation and on contemporary architectural practice. Formerly Studio Professor in the undergraduate and graduate program at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Has also taught at Tulane University, Parsons School of Design in Paris, and in the Career Discovery Program at Harvard. Invited critic at numerous schools of architecture in the US and Europe, juror for national competitions and lecturer at symposia including EuroPan3, "At Work in the City" at The Netherlands Architecture Institute and at the Global Village International Symposium: "Living Spaces and Life's Quality in the Age of Telecommunication," Vienna. Worked professionally in Paris and for SOM, Chicago. Principal of atelier4Architecture (1993-1997), whose design work has appeared in national and international publications. Currently in private practice with Veikos Architects in New York, NY. Recent work, Irides, an architecture and landscape proposal to incorporate telecommunications, sports facilities and cultural institutions for five sites along the West Arc in Thessaloniki, Greece, was published in Mutating Cities by Architectural Press.
E-mail: cathrine@veikos.comKarl Wallick
Lecturer
B.Arch., University of Cincinnati; M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania. Teaches design studios. Has also taught design studios at University of Cincinnati. Co-winner of a design competition for Main Street, Ludlow, Kentucky in 1998. Worked with KieranTimberlake Associates LLP, Philadelphia since 2000. Projects at KTA include two books (Manual and Refabricating Architecture); SmartWrap exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Innovation Conference, New York; Built projects at KTA include Levine Hall, University of Pennsylvania and Pierson College, Yale University.
kwallick@kierantimberlake.com
Wesley Wei Practice Professor of Architecture B.Arch., Penn State; M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania Principal of Wesley Wei Architects, Philadelphia wwei@wweiarchitects.comMarion Weiss
Associate Professor of Architecture
B.S. Arch., University of Virginia; M.Arch., Yale University. Teaches design studio and courses on representation and urbanism. In private practice with Weiss/Manfredi Architects, New York City; currently the architects for the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY, the new campus center for Smith College in Northhampton, Mass. and Trinity College Performing Arts Center in Hartford, CT. Winner of numerous competitions including Bridging the Gaps International Design Competition in lower Manhattan, the Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, and the Olympia Fields Park and Community Center in Illinois. The latter two, as built works, received National AIA awards and I.D. Magazine environment awards. The firms work was recently featured in the Cooper Hewitt Museum Design Triennial 2000, and a monograph on their work, Site Specific, was recently published by Princeton Architectural Press.*
E-mail: mweiss@weissmanfredi.com
Richard Wesley
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture
Chair, Undergraduate Architecture Program
B.Arch., Pennsylvania State University; M.Arch., Harvard University. Has taught at University of Illinois, Notre Dame, and Harvard. Teaches required undergraduate design studio, the senior seminar on architecture and literature, and the first semester design studio in the graduate program. Publications on architectural theory in the Architecture Monograph, Harvard Architecture Review, Rassegna,VIA, and Res. Numerous reviews of books on architectural theory and education in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Recently published in Dialogue No. 034 (2000). Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Design Fellowship. Principal of wesleyArchitects in Philadelphia, PA.
E-mail: rwesley@pobox.upenn.eduEmeritus
John Bower, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
B.Arch. with Honors, University of Pennsylvania; Hexagon Honor Society, Tau Sigma Delta. Studied abroad as the recipient of the Albert F. Schenk Traveling Fellowship in Architecture and a fellowship from the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts and Music. Worked for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and then as a senior design architect with Vincent G. Kling before establishing his own practice first with Frederick M. Fradley as Bower and Fradley Architects, and then with the late Roger B. Lewis, John E. Thrower (M.Arch.65), and Arthur W. Jones (M.Arch. 62) as Bower Lewis Thrower/Architects. Examples of Bower's work include Penn's International House (1971) and Vance Hall (1974), two Philadelphia AIA Gold Medal winners. Bower Lewis Thrower/Architects worked with the Marriott Corporation on the 1200 block of Market Street for Philadelphia's main convention center hotel.Lee Copeland
Professor Emeritus
B.Arch. cum laude with the AIA First Medal at the University of Washington, M. Arch. and M.C.P., University of Pennsylvania. Began his career in architecture and urban design in his native Washington, where he now maintains his Seattle office, Weinstein Copeland Architects. Returned to the University of Washington to teach in 1964, named dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1972. After associations with GBQC, Fred Bassetti and Company, and Young and Carleton, became founding principal in Joyce, Copeland, Vaughan and Nordfors. Appointed Dean of the GSFA and Paley Professor of Architecture and Planning in 1979. Served as Chairman, then Commissioner and Vice Chairman, of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.Stanislawa Nowicki
Professor Emeritus
M. Arch., Polytechnic of Warsaw, Poland.French Government Scholarship recipient. Legendary first-year studio critic specializing in Design and Basic Building Technique. Taught in both Architecture and Design of the Environment Programs. Co-authored the Master Plan for rebuilding Warsaw.
G. Holmes Perkins
University Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Emeritus
University Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Emeritus A.B,. M.Arch., Harvard. Taught at University of Michigan for one year, returned to Harvard to teach with Hudnut, Gropius, and Breuer. Appointed Charles Dyer Norton Professor and Chair of Harvard's Regional Planning Department while serving as editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Planners. Director of the Urban Development Division of the National Housing Agency in Washington. Dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts from 1951 to 1971, Chairman of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, and founder of GSFA's Architectural Archives. ACSA/AIA Topaz Award, Chancellor of the College of Fellows of the AIA, AIA Medal, Pennsylvania Society of Architects Medal of Achievement.Joseph Rykwert
Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture and Professor of Art History, Emeritus
M.A., Cantab. Dr., Royal College of Art; Hon. Dsc. Edinburgh, Hon.Dr Cordoba, Bath. Was Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Cambridge University and Reader in Architecture. Andrew Mellon Visiting Professor, Cooper Union; Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington; George Lurcy Professor, Columbia; Senior Scholar Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica; awarded Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France. Member Accademia di San Luca and Accademia Clementina, and Polish Academy. Books include: On Adam's House in Paradise, The Idea of a Town, The First Moderns, The Necessity of Artifice, a new translation of L.B. Alberti's On the Art of Building in Ten Books, The Dancing Column, The Seduction of Place.*
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